48 THE FRUIT GARDEN. [JAX. 



tained for forcing them ; so that the construction of each kind of 

 frame is separately explained. 



These frames may be employed to advantage in the vicinity of 

 large towns for forcing various plants early for market, by the as- 

 sistance of which you will have for sale, in February, March and 

 April, various sorts of flowers, fruits and esculents that would not in. 

 their natural state of growth have appeared till May, June, or July. 



But, for private use, where there is a roomy pine-apple stove, it 

 may also be used, occasionally, for forcing many sorts of plants, 

 flowers, and some sorts of fruits, with equal success, sufficient for the 

 supply of a family. 



However, where a considerable supply. is required, a forcing-frame, 

 distinct from the pine-stove, would be more convenient. 



In either of these departments may be introduced for forcing, pots 

 of strawberries, kidney-beans, roses, honeysuckles, jasmines, and any 

 other flowering shrubs ; likewise carnations, pinks, sweetwilliams, 

 wall- flowers, stock-gilliflowers, narcissuses, jonquils and early dwarf 

 tulips, and any other desirable flower-plants or roots that may be 

 required early for curiosity; also several kinds of curious annuals, 

 and other rare plants. You may likewise have several sorts of dwarf 

 fruit trees, as early May and May-duke cherries, peaches, nectarines, 

 apricots, figs, grapes, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, &c. 



The general construction of each sort of these frames is explained 

 under separate heads, according to the materials of heat used in 

 forcing them, viz : by dung-heat, bark-bed heat, and by fire-heat. 



By Dung heat. This is not only the most simple and cheapest 

 kind of forci-ng-frame in its construction, but also considerably the 

 cheapest in working, with respect to the article heat, as it may be 

 forced effectually by substantial linings of hot dung against the back 

 and ends. 



This frame is formed with an upright back and ends of pine plank- 

 ing, and a sloping front of movable glass-lights ; the length may be 

 ten, twenty, or thirty feet, or more; the width from three to five, 

 and five or six high : the frame-work should be of two inch pine 

 planking, tongued, and closely joined, that no steam from the dung 

 may penetrate into the frame, raised five, six, or seven feet high 

 behind, and but ten or twelve inches high in front, raising both ends 

 answerable to the front and back; the glass-work to range from the 

 upright in front, sloping upward towards the back wall to about a 

 foot width at top, there resting the ends upon proper framework of 

 wood; and bars or bearers, three inches in width, must range sloping 

 from the back to front, for the support of the lights, as in common 

 hot-bed frames, and the top -of all to be boarded wind and water 

 tight ; within side may be two or three ranges of narrow shelves 

 along the back and ends for pots of small plants, and the bottom 

 levelled on which to place pots of larger kinds ; or you may have 

 shelves rising one behind another, quite from the front half way up 

 the back ; so may place the lowest plants in front, the others in order 

 behind them, rising gradually to the tallest in the back row. 

 . From the above general sketch you will easily form an idea of the 



